Zilog System 8000 Model 31 available in Australia

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Sun Nov 24 10:39:01 2002

It was thus said that the Great Hans Franke once stated:
>
> Hmm... I have a hard time to agree here. The 8086/7/9 is
> to me one of the best CPU designs ever - at least for a
> true 16 Bit machine. I true atempt to brng the good parts
> of mainframe design to microprocessors.

  What is the 8089 used for? Some sort of DMA or IO controller?

  -spc (Didn't mind programming the 80x86 in assembly ... )
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